Tag Archives: health care

Analyzing the President's address

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: September 10, 2009

NewsHour’s David Brooks and Mark Shields discuss President Obama’s speech on health care reform and what impact it will have on Congress.

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The lion sleeps tonight

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: August 26, 2009

With the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, who will pick up for the Democrats where Kennedy left off in terms of the health care debate and other key economic issues? Conventional wisdom (and the stock market) finds that Kennedy’s absence from the Senate floor will be a blow to the health care debate, but this [...]

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Miss the press conference?

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: July 23, 2009

You can listen to President Obama’s press conference on health care reform from last night in its entirety at PRX. And Marketplace’s Tamara Keith gives an <a href="overview and analysis of the q&a session.

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Going Public

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: July 20, 2009

Will a publicly-financed health care system be a further burden on the economy, or can President Obama get a bill passed that doesn’t increase the federal deficit? President Obama discusses his health care reform initiative, bipartisanship and deadlines in an exclusive interview with NewsHour’s Jim Lehrer. Watch Video The MediaBistro blog FishbowlDC reported that Lehrer [...]

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To form a more open government

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: July 2, 2009

This week, experts from across the political world came together to talk about open government – the idea that the web can help information flow through agencies to the media and everyday citizens who want to participate and have a say in making policy. Last year at this time, everyone at the annual Personal Democracy [...]

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